Definition of Irreverence

Irreverence

The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

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Irreverence Quotations

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies

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Irreverence Translations

irreverence in German is Unerheblichkeit, Respektlosigkeit
irreverence in Spanish is irreverencia

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